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Alexandra Kalinowski

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Alexandra is a composer for Film, musical theater, and media based in Santa Monica, CA. She is a classically trained pianist and vocalist who has composed music for film, video games and podcasts. She is a 2021 Fellow of the Sundance Composers Lab and a graduate of USC’s Thornton School of Music Screen Scoring Masters program, class of 2020. She is also working on a 1940s period musical and has released a series of indie albums and EPs with bands Old Hannah and her solo project AK. She has worked as a composer's assistant on Broadway, and in film and TV music.

“She has….a soaring voice that she sometimes modulates carefully, other times she’ll cut loose with a full-throttle, practically operatic wail. Her arrangements for strings and winds are clever and emphatic” - New York Music Daily.

She has twice performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been featured singing on camera in both The Anchorite and Sweetwater starring Ed Harris and January Jones. She led a five-piece orchestral pop band in New York, performing around the city and at Roosevelt Island as part of the summer solstice Make Music Festival and the CMJ Music Marathon.She is a session vocalist, an avid opera fan and is also an amateur chef specializing in gluten-free baked goods that actually taste….good.

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Selected Credits

2021

25 Cents Per Minute - Independent Feature Film dir. Tyler Burke, co-composer with Prateek Rajagopal

Re:Ciclos - Short film, co-composer with Prateek Rajagopal

2020

The Boxers of Brule - Vice Media Documentary, Premiered at Big Sky

Documentary Film Festival, Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival, Composer

Not Done - PBS Documentary, Additional Music

Dating a Killer - Lifetime Original Movie, Additional Music

Super Delivery - Video Game, single player casual game, composer

Binky Saves Chernobyl - Video Game, 2-player couch cooperative game, composer/sound designer

Crybaby - Shortt Film, composer

Language Arts - Short Film, composer

2019

Janine, Germain Marie - VR film, composer

Sonnet, Short Film, composer

Sugarland - Episodic Mini series, additional music

Life Sucks, Period - Short Film, co-composer

Kindling - Short Film, composer

Endless Summer - Short Film, composer

Love Story - Short Film, composer

Cyber Hi - Short Film, composer

Silicon Caesar - Short Sci-Fi Film, Composer

The Gaze - Short Horror Film, Composer

2018

About a Donkey - Feature Drama Film, Composer, dir. Christina Raia

The Pyramid - Short Thriller Film, Composer, dir. Aviv Rubenstien

Superhero Betty - Short Comedy Film, Composer, dir. April Xiong

Drive - Short Narrative Film, Composer, dir. April Xiong

Vows - Short Comedy Pilot, Composer